BT2020 Video -Free PG&PhD entrance guidance programme launch

Dear Friends,
We are delighted to let you know that BT2020 successfully has launched both PG(M.Sc/M.Tech) &PhD(NET/ ICAR/ ICMR) entrance guidance programmes last Sunday( 20 July 2008) at Jagsel Biosolutions, East tambaram Chennai.

Registration:
Till date 108 students have registered for the programmes(both) excluding those from outside Chennai.

During the first week, 13 students have attended the classes which has seen more number of B.Tech students than B.Sc and more number of M.Sc students than M.Tech.

During the same we have got students & alumnus from
Gandhigram Rural University-Dindukal
New Prince College-Chennai
Annamalai University-Chidambaram
M.K.U-Madurai
VIT University-Vellore
Karpagam College-Coimbatore
Vinayaka Missions University-Chennai
RKM Vivekananda College-Chennai
Loyola College-Chennai
Bharat University-Chennai
BIT-Trichy

12 more students have expressed their willingness to join the programme from next week and we expect 20 more students to participate from the next week.

Programme launch:
The programme was launched jointly by our teaching volunteers and Jagsel Biosolutions.
Mr.Sachin(ICAR-JRF) has given 1.15 hour orientation class after which there was a discussion session between the participants on the programmes,entrance exams of PG & PhD programmes,courses and other academic issues.

Future plans:
We have been receiving sign ups and emails from our readers from parts of the country such as Salem,Madurai,Gurgaun,Hyderabad,Guntakal, Bangalore,Maharashtra, Visakhapatnam,Kolhapur, Mehsana(Gujrat),Delhi,Tirupati,Jalna,Bhubaneswar,Pune,Allahabad and Bihar for similar programmes on their regions.

We understand your eagerness.We try to take up this programme online so that it would be beneficial to a large number of students. We try our best to launch Delhi,Mumbai and Kolkatta chapters soon depending on the outcome of this Chennai chapter.


Its great that JRFs from IIT-Kharagpur and CDRI-Lucknow (with both CSIR-NET&GATE) have expressed their willingness to join the programme as teaching volunteers..Thanks to each one of you..

In order to launch this programme in your area we need minimum 3-4 teaching volunteers with NET/GATE/ICAR/ICMR qualification for handling PhD aspirants & candidates who have cleared JNU/IIT/IISc/MKU or any other national level M.Sc/M.Tech entrance exam for handling PG(M.Sc/M.Tech) aspirants and 1-2 rooms to accommodate the participants.

Acknowledgements:
We thank our venue sponsor Jagsel Bio Solutions
our teaching volunteers
Prof.Jagatheesan M.Sc.,M.Tech.,M.Phil,PhD- KCET
Dr.Thangaraja M.Sc.,M.Tech.,M.Phil,PhD- KCET
Mr.Krishnakumar M.Sc.,(PhD)
Mr.Sachin(ICAR-JRF)
Ms.Sushma Padmaja(CSIR-JRF)
Ms.Srivani(PhD)
Ms.Revathi(PhD)
and
Times of India.

Letters from our readers:
Here are some letters from our readers.
1)Prof.Ashok Ghosh,A.N.College,Patna:
It is a good initiative.We can get many students from Bihar if we can make it online.I wish to take free classes.If you need any help in Bihar ,I am there.

2)Ms.Chethna-BT2020 reader:
Great going ppl...infact very good idea .. i think this s gonna help lots of ppl..!! " All The Best.." hope the results gonna b as best as the idea is..cos ths s the frst time tht such thing has been brought to the notice of students..!! so i m sure all r gonna get max benefit from this..keep the good work going..'All The Best to u Sachin..'Good wishes..

3)Vaibhav(U.P)-BT2020 reader:
Thats a great opportunity for chennai peoples.Good luck and my best wishes to the programme and i wish that please if possible do extend this in Delhi and U.P. also.

4)Ms.Binita(Gujarat)-BT2020 reader:
man! when are people in Gujarat going to get the benefit of such nice opportunities???

5)Dr.Thangaraja-KCET,Virudhunagar:
I saw in your website to conduct the free coaching to GATE and CSIR NET entrance examination to BTech and B.Sc Student. It is very good effort for our students to enter into higher education. On this part I am also interested to join to this programme as volunteer.

6)Mr.Srikant,HR manager,Banglore:
Good idea to cater the need of the hour..All the best..

BT2020 Video:
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